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So they talk about this as if it were a new innovation at the time—but could it be that this kind of woodworking was more widespread and this was just the only example to survive? Could it have been a standard part of the Acheulian toolkit?
So they talk about this as if it were a new innovation at the time—but could it be that this kind of woodworking was more widespread and this was just the only example to survive? Could it have been a standard part of the Acheulian toolkit?
Ok, but protests need to be done “without distraction”? That kind of defeats the purpose, doesn’t it?
The US Navy will convert its surplus oil rigs in the Pacific into active mobile military bases
The Navy has its own oil rigs?
It’s similar to how Adobe Illustrator works—if you leave the default compatibility options checked, saving in PDF or native AI format results in an identical file with the only difference being the filename extension.
So they’re using xenophobia to attack education, because xenophobia for its own sake isn’t evil enough.
The authors liken the newly discovered hippocampal barcodes to computer hash codes, which are patterns assigned as unique identifiers to different events.
Could the birds be using something analogous to a spatial Bloom filter?
I assume we can’t actually resolve spatial detail on the planet, so the effect must have been temporal. Would it have been something like a spike moving through the visible spectrum as the planet transits its star?
In addition to the wall, archaeologists found shards of pottery and animal bones at the site
Clearly, the only conclusion accounting for all the evidence is that the wall was built to keep the animals from getting into the pottery.
From the article:
But what we know is that it works. We have no indication of any big destruction after the castrum was built.
Try the classical Greek tragedies—one of the requirements of the genre is that the action is supposed to take place in less than a day (Aristotle’s “unity of time”).
I haven’t read it yet, but Martin Riker’s novel The Guest Lecture apparently takes place in the mind of a professor lying awake in bed the night before she’s supposed to deliver a lecture.
“Feedback training teaches models to consider their racism,” says Valentin Hofmann, a researcher at the Allen Institute for AI and a coauthor on the paper. “But dialect prejudice opens a deeper level.”
Hmm… I think dialect bias is a distinct problem, which may need a separate approach that doesn’t just lump it together with racism and try to eliminate both using the same means.
I just quickly skimmed the source paper, but I’m wondering if they can distinguish between a latent “concept” space that’s actually based on English, versus one that’s derived from all source languages and just weighted more towards English?
“I like it when companies game search engines by titling their promotional pages to mimic search query results.”
The Mac keyboard layout was largely inherited from the Apple ][ and pre-OSX systems, which were non-Unix. The original Unix keyboard layout differs from both Mac and Windows layouts.
Google (and anyone else) can already do that. Reddit’s APIs provide access to the underlying database, which can include metadata not visible on the website.
I’ve seen nothing to confirm that deleting or editing your writings now will remove anything from the version Reddit shares with Google.
Every species is simultaneously facing two types of evolutionary pressure: pressure to adapt to best exploit its niche, and pressure to prevent everything else from adapting to exploit it.
The best strategy to deal with the second type of pressure is to proactively keep changing any attributes not constrained by the first type of pressure.
The team’s measurements even suggest that the supernovae that virtually cleared the bubble of space in which the Milky Way resides was born in a cluster of stars within the Radcliffe Wave.
Wait, the Milky Way is inside of a bubble generated by novae which were inside a cluster which is inside the Radcliffe Wave which is… itself… inside the Milky Way?
It’s a feature, not a bug: if he claimed to know how it worked, they wouldn’t be able to sell it as a scapegoat for indefensible business decisions.